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The thin, long piece of paper slides slowly out the voting machine, the internal mechanism guiding it making a sound similar to a copying machine.
While Houston and part of Texas is overflowing with water and flooding, hundreds of thousands of acres in western Montana are engulfed by wildfires.
Terminally ill people do not have a state constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, New York's highest court ruled Thursday.
Price of lunch for students in New York City public schools. Starting this year, every student will qualify for free meals in an attempt to reduce the stigma associated with poverty.
A golden sunrise ushered in a picturesque bright day Thursday, making conditions ideal for a dip in the ocean. But the sands of South Beach were eerily bare.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner announced plans Thursday to borrow $6 billion to work on paying down Illinois' massive backlog of unpaid bills, but he warned that he'll try to trim state spending in order to pay for the new debt costs.
The Vermont Department of Taxes has a bit of an awkward question for you.
Letters are being sent to more than 17,000 former Missouri state employees asking if they want to cash in early on their pensions.
In the 37 years that Dr. Ernest Marshall has been performing abortions in Kentucky, he has seen more than a dozen clinics close in the state. He is now facing off against the governor in a legal fight that will decide whether Kentucky becomes the first state in the nation without an abortion clinic.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced a formal review Thursday of Obama-era guidelines that spurred universities to more aggressively investigate campus sexual assaults -- a policy she criticized as unfair and coercive.
Thursday marked the first day of school for New York City's 1.1 million public school students -- and the start of free preschool and free lunch for any pupil who wants, no questions asked.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has a problem — and not much time to solve it.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, it hit one of the country's biggest gateways for refugees -- a population that has already had to rebuild their lives and will now struggle to do it again.
By aligning its transformation efforts with six priority areas, Georgia's most populous county is seeing early progress.
Santa Monica is convinced that it can and should. It's putting a lot of effort into aligning services around that goal.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
In the aftermath of catastrophes like Harvey and Irma, reliable, transparent information can guide a democratic and inclusive rebuilding effort.
Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka hopes so. Right now, the major employers there mostly hire people and buy business supplies and services outside city limits.
"It clearly shows that something is going wrong in that system when a grandmother is raising her hands like she might be shot," says author and professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve.
A joke from Sam Teresi, the mayor of Jamestown, N.Y., where the state is investing millions of dollars to make the birthplace of comedian Lucille Ball a national destination for comedy lovers.
States suing President Trump over his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered deportation protection to immigrants brought to this country illegally as children.
Angela Paxton, the wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has officially launched a campaign for Texas Senate.
Mandatory evacuations of vast swaths of coastal South Florida began Wednesday as anxious residents continued to watch and wait -- and watch, and wait -- for the massive storm to roll closer.
A group of Democratic-led states is leading a legal challenge to President Trump's planned repeal of a program allowing nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States -- and just as in the court fight over the president's proposed travel ban, the challengers want to use his ethnic broadsides against him.
A key Senate committee Wednesday launched a set of hearings intended to lead to a short-term, bipartisan bill to shore up the troubled individual health insurance market, but a diverse group of state insurance commissioners united around some solutions that were not necessarily on the table.
Clark County commissioners voted unanimously today to ban the possession or advertisement of legal marijuana at McCarran International Airport and other properties overseen by the county's aviation division.
A coalition of parents and public-education advocates gathered enough signatures to let voters decide whether Arizona moves forward with or rejects a massive expansion of the state's school-voucher program.
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has joined the legal fight against gerrymandering, the political map-drawing process geared toward creating congressional and statehouse districts that sharply favor one party over the other.
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party Tuesday condemned a Facebook post from a Charlotte Republican mayoral candidate who listed one of her qualifications as being "white."
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